Well, we now have this report that the Pentagon is doing its level best to subvert the decision making capabilities of the incoming administration:

The uniformed services are trying to lock in the next administration by creating a political cost for holding the line on defense spending. Conservative groups are hoping to ramp up defense spending as a tool to limit options for a Democratic Congress and president to pass new, and potentially costly, social programs, including health care reform.

While it is the right of conservatives to weigh in on the defense budget, the actions of the, “Uniformed Services” appears to be a direct challenge to the idea of civilian control of the military.

Douglas MacArthur was fired for simply saying in a letter to a Congressman that he disagreed with the President’s policy, and these folks are trying to gaslight Obama.